SPIRITED AWAY (SEN TO CHIHIRO NO KAMIKAKUSHI)
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Studio: Ghibli
Awards: Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, Blue Ribbon Award, Mainichi Film Award, Japan Academy Award for Best Film, British Academy Film Award for Best Film not in English, and many more
Year: 2001
Photo-credit: Wikipedia
Spirited Away is considered one of Japan’s most famous and popular films being the highest grossing film in Japan. The movie tells a story about a young 10 year old girl named Chihiro, who enters the world of kami (deity), but soon finds herself trapped there after her parents are turned into pigs by the evil witch Yubaba who rules this world. Chihiro begins to work for Yubaba at a bathhouse in order to free herself and her parents from the spell that they are put under, but realizes it isn’t easy being the only human in the world of kami. She befriends a boy named Haku who helps Chihiro escape Yubaba’s spell.